# Gentian Investments

> Gentian Investments is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sarnen, Switzerland
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gentian/about/
- Website: http://gentian.investments

Gentian Investments is a VC fund in Sarnen focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $933k–$10M |
| Series A | $2.1M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 39% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| SaaS | 3 | 17% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Series A | 5 | 28% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 13 | 72% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elian Kool | Investor | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elian-kool |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sunflower Labs | Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station. | $16M | Series B | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Yeastup | Yeastup upcycles by-products from the beer-brewing process into quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy. Yeastup is headquartered in Brugg, Aargau and was founded in 2020. | $10M | Series A | Dec 16, 2024 |  |
| Creaitor | The generative AI platform that makes AI accessible to everyone. We are a consolidation of cutting-edge technologies, supporting over 40 languages with the best possible integrations. Our ultimate goal is to unlock the potential of AI and enable our users to turn their creative and intelligent ideas into reality. | $578K | Pre-Seed | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Aleno | Aleno is a professional online reservations system for restaurants. aleno is designed to cut down costs and increase turn-over by automation. | $4.8M | Series A | Nov 11, 2022 |  |
| aspaara AG | We help companies to save money, enhance efficiency, and improve employee happiness with our AI workforce planning platform.Talents are the most influential production factor as well as the largest cost factor. However, staffing is rather complex because of a variety of constraints. Our artificial intelligence-based optimization engine#matchingcore satisfies customized scheduling criteria while adapting to our clients' very specific situations.Among further improvements, we help our clients save up to 6.8% of wrongly allocated labour costs and reduce up to 48% unnecessary travel costs. Our clients are in professional services, automotive, aircraft groundhandling and health care. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Wyth | Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Wyth | Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| Sunflower Labs | Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Acodis | Handling hundreds or even thousands of documents per day is tough. Either you’re juggling various manual data entry processes, or you’re stuck with tools that are powerful yet impossible to use. This means inaccurate data, expensive processes, and employees who are disengaged due to monotonous work. It doesn’t have to be that way. Acodis enablesyou to turn any document into structured data in just a few seconds. The machine learning engine that can read – and understand –documents like humans do. You’ll save valuable time and get all the information typically locked in documents. This allows you to scale your document processes with a few clicks. Acodis can process any document in any language and will seamlessly integrate with your systems. You can easily export your data from Acodis via API to feed and enhance your ERP, CRM, or RPA system of choice. Transform all your documents into machine-readable structured data. | $2.1M |  | Sep 10, 2020 |  |
| Acodis | Handling hundreds or even thousands of documents per day is tough. Either you’re juggling various manual data entry processes, or you’re stuck with tools that are powerful yet impossible to use. This means inaccurate data, expensive processes, and employees who are disengaged due to monotonous work. It doesn’t have to be that way. Acodis enablesyou to turn any document into structured data in just a few seconds. The machine learning engine that can read – and understand –documents like humans do. You’ll save valuable time and get all the information typically locked in documents. This allows you to scale your document processes with a few clicks. Acodis can process any document in any language and will seamlessly integrate with your systems. You can easily export your data from Acodis via API to feed and enhance your ERP, CRM, or RPA system of choice. Transform all your documents into machine-readable structured data. | $2.2M |  | Sep 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Gentian Investments invest in?

Gentian Investments invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gentian Investments's check size?

Gentian Investments typically joins rounds of $933k–$10M at Seed and $2.1M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gentian Investments participates in.

### How do I contact Gentian Investments?

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### Who are the partners at Gentian Investments?

The team at Gentian Investments includes Elian Kool (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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